• DocumentCode
    1117684
  • Title

    Image Approximation from Gray Scale ``Medial Axes´´

  • Author

    Wang, Shyuan ; Wu, Angela Y. ; Rosenfeld, Azriel

  • Author_Institution
    Computer Vision Laboratory, Computer Science Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1981
  • Firstpage
    687
  • Lastpage
    696
  • Abstract
    Several types of gray-weighted ``medial axes´´ have been defined. This paper shows that one of them, the min-max medial axis, can be used to reconstruct good approximations to the original image based on a relatively small amount of information.
  • Keywords
    Computational efficiency; Computer science; Computer vision; Contracts; Image processing; Image reconstruction; Image segmentation; Night vision; Pattern recognition; Image approximation; image processing; medial axis transformations; pattern recognition;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0162-8828
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPAMI.1981.4767172
  • Filename
    4767172